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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco has banned street vending on Mission Street for 90 days, citing concerns about crime and sales of stolen goods. It’s the latest in a long saga around public safety in the neighborhood. KQED’s Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman explains how we got here and what this means for vendors.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC6008075201&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968298/sfs-mission-street-vending-ban-begins\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED: SF’s Mission Street Ban Begins\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968382/on-first-day-of-mission-street-vending-ban-vendors-urge-city-to-postpone-rules\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED: On First Day of Mission Street Vending Ban, Vendors Implore City to Reconsider\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong> I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Part of what makes San Francisco’s Mission District such a vibrant place is the hustle and bustle of the streets. For years, you could find vendors selling crafts and goods along Mission Street. But these days, that bustle is a bit harder to find because after months of disputes over public safety and street vending, the practice is now banned along a section of Mission Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 3: \u003c/strong>Asking these vendors at the end of the year, just when the holiday season is happening to suddenly stop working is deeply unfair. Buying from vendors is a part of our culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The mission has just become the latest San Francisco neighborhood to see a major policy shift driven by fears about safety. Today, why street vending has been banned on Mission Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So this ban went into effect on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>What it does is it basically bans all vending. So anyone selling anything on the street within 300ft of Mission Street from 14th Street to Cesar Chavez. And this ban lasts for 90 days and it could be extended if the city finds reasons to extend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I want to understand how we got here, because fights about vending in this area have actually been going on for months. Right. Can you just take us through the events that sort of led to this ban?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>I think it’s important to recognize that there’s basically in this story, there’s two different kinds of vendors. There’s permitted vendors who have gone through a process with the city. They’ve paid money, they’ve gotten a business license. Then there’s this other kind of vendor which are people that are allegedly selling stolen goods. But this ban bans all vendors entirely. This issue of people selling stolen goods and a suggested link to an increase in crime around these markets has really drawn the attention of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>And so in March of 2022, the city passes a law that says if you are going to sell anything on the street, you have to have a permit. And if you are selling things that appear to be new, you have to show that you bought it somewhere. That law also specifically makes the civic center area in downtown San Francisco a no vending zone. And that’s when a lot of people say this presence of this market, of people selling stolen things really increased around the 16th Street and 24th Street Bart station. That situation comes to a head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>And supervisor Hillary Ronen, who represents the Mission District, among other neighborhoods, says that she starts getting calls and emails from constituents, people saying they don’t feel safe. And so in July of 2022, Ronen does something pretty drastic. She asks Bart to fence off the Bart Plaza at 24th. And mission supervisor Ronen basically said, you know, I have to do something. This is untenable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Right. So these barricades came up and there’s also this permitting system that was in place. But vending pretty much continued up until the ban that we’re talking about today. So what set this ban off that we’re seeing right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So DPW, that’s the Department of Public Works. They’re the ones responsible for inspecting these vendors permits. 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One is people reacting to sort of this very fluid environment that develops around these Bart plazas where someone shows up and they open up a suitcase and there’s all sorts of things. There’s clothes, there’s detergents, you know, household goods. And people sort of swarm around in. And it’s sort of a very fast it’s almost like the New York Stock Exchange, you know, $5, $10, whatever. And then it kind of goes. And so it’s this very dynamic situation and that has some people feeling unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Then Ronen’s actually also citing police data. So in this DPW order, it says within the mission and I’m quoting here within the mission police station service area, the intersection of 24th and Mission Street and the intersection of 16th and Mission Street rank as the sites with the highest and second highest number of calls for service. So those are the two areas with the Bart plazas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So the order states between October 10th, 2022 and October 10th, 2023, the department received 580 calls for service, four incidents on Mission Street from the area of the ban, basically 14th to Cesar Chavez. And the three most numerous types of calls were assault, battery, petty theft and vandalism. We don’t have the granularity of the data to say this is directly related to street vending or these illegal vending of goods. But I think in large part, this has to do with a perception or an experience of feeling unsafe while being around these markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, how the city made the ban happen and what vendors think about it. 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The second thing she needed to do that she said she wanted to do in order to get this ban into place, was secure a place for these vendors to go while the mission street ban was in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Azul, I want to ask you about how vendors are feeling about this. What are the vendors that you’ve spoken with or heard from and also advocates saying about this ban, especially the folks in the neighborhood who are very much affected by this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>The vendors who are calling themselves the Mission Vendors Association. The main calls by these permitted vendors was to wait until after the holidays to put the ban into effect, because for them, they’re saying this is a big time for us to make a lot of money. We rely on this work to support our families, to pay rent, to put food on the table. And this problem has been going on for years. 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But these days, that bustle is a bit harder to find because after months of disputes over public safety and street vending, the practice is now banned along a section of Mission Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker 3: \u003c/strong>Asking these vendors at the end of the year, just when the holiday season is happening to suddenly stop working is deeply unfair. Buying from vendors is a part of our culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The mission has just become the latest San Francisco neighborhood to see a major policy shift driven by fears about safety. Today, why street vending has been banned on Mission Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So this ban went into effect on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>What it does is it basically bans all vending. So anyone selling anything on the street within 300ft of Mission Street from 14th Street to Cesar Chavez. And this ban lasts for 90 days and it could be extended if the city finds reasons to extend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I want to understand how we got here, because fights about vending in this area have actually been going on for months. Right. Can you just take us through the events that sort of led to this ban?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>I think it’s important to recognize that there’s basically in this story, there’s two different kinds of vendors. There’s permitted vendors who have gone through a process with the city. They’ve paid money, they’ve gotten a business license. Then there’s this other kind of vendor which are people that are allegedly selling stolen goods. But this ban bans all vendors entirely. This issue of people selling stolen goods and a suggested link to an increase in crime around these markets has really drawn the attention of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>And so in March of 2022, the city passes a law that says if you are going to sell anything on the street, you have to have a permit. And if you are selling things that appear to be new, you have to show that you bought it somewhere. That law also specifically makes the civic center area in downtown San Francisco a no vending zone. And that’s when a lot of people say this presence of this market, of people selling stolen things really increased around the 16th Street and 24th Street Bart station. That situation comes to a head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>And supervisor Hillary Ronen, who represents the Mission District, among other neighborhoods, says that she starts getting calls and emails from constituents, people saying they don’t feel safe. And so in July of 2022, Ronen does something pretty drastic. She asks Bart to fence off the Bart Plaza at 24th. And mission supervisor Ronen basically said, you know, I have to do something. This is untenable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Right. So these barricades came up and there’s also this permitting system that was in place. But vending pretty much continued up until the ban that we’re talking about today. So what set this ban off that we’re seeing right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So DPW, that’s the Department of Public Works. They’re the ones responsible for inspecting these vendors permits. And apparently DPW workers have reported being assaulted, being threatened. Ronen says basically DPW inspectors have come to city hall crying, asking, please, can we not work on Mission Street because they feel that it is so dangerous to work there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hillary Ronen: \u003c/strong>The own city staff of DPW have to wear bullet proof vests to work, have had their lives threatened and have been assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>And so Ronen made her case at a press conference at 24th Street, Bart Plaza on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hillary Ronen: \u003c/strong>These people have caused a problem in the mission, and it’s a big problem. I hear from all the brick and mortar businesses that are also barely surviving on Mission Street that say that their business is down because you can’t walk down Mission Street and feel safe. I went, I’m going to finish. I have receipt. I receive daily emails and calls to my office of Immigrant residents in the Mission that say they no longer feel comfortable riding 24th Street, Bart or 63 part of the busses here because it’s scary to walk through the chaos in these places and don’t see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Ronen and the city and DPW. They’re all making this case that there is a direct link between these illegal street vendors and a rise in crime in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hillary Ronen: \u003c/strong>And so we’ve got to do it and start having a safe and calm and clean atmosphere again in the Mission district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What do we know about whether street vending is actually linked to these fears about crime? As Ronen has been saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>There’s a couple of ways they’re making this connection. One is people reacting to sort of this very fluid environment that develops around these Bart plazas where someone shows up and they open up a suitcase and there’s all sorts of things. There’s clothes, there’s detergents, you know, household goods. And people sort of swarm around in. And it’s sort of a very fast it’s almost like the New York Stock Exchange, you know, $5, $10, whatever. And then it kind of goes. And so it’s this very dynamic situation and that has some people feeling unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Then Ronen’s actually also citing police data. So in this DPW order, it says within the mission and I’m quoting here within the mission police station service area, the intersection of 24th and Mission Street and the intersection of 16th and Mission Street rank as the sites with the highest and second highest number of calls for service. So those are the two areas with the Bart plazas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So the order states between October 10th, 2022 and October 10th, 2023, the department received 580 calls for service, four incidents on Mission Street from the area of the ban, basically 14th to Cesar Chavez. And the three most numerous types of calls were assault, battery, petty theft and vandalism. We don’t have the granularity of the data to say this is directly related to street vending or these illegal vending of goods. But I think in large part, this has to do with a perception or an experience of feeling unsafe while being around these markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, how the city made the ban happen and what vendors think about it. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So how does Ronen actually make this ban happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Ronen needed to do two things in order to make this band become a reality. And that’s because in 2018, Street vending was decriminalized in the state of California. The first was to demonstrate that there was a real risk to the safety, health and welfare of the general public in order to get around SB 946. She did that by pulling those records of the DPW workers who reported being assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>And, you know, working with the city attorney and other city officials to make the case that this was a risk to the general public. The second thing she needed to do that she said she wanted to do in order to get this ban into place, was secure a place for these vendors to go while the mission street ban was in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Azul, I want to ask you about how vendors are feeling about this. What are the vendors that you’ve spoken with or heard from and also advocates saying about this ban, especially the folks in the neighborhood who are very much affected by this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>The vendors who are calling themselves the Mission Vendors Association. The main calls by these permitted vendors was to wait until after the holidays to put the ban into effect, because for them, they’re saying this is a big time for us to make a lot of money. We rely on this work to support our families, to pay rent, to put food on the table. And this problem has been going on for years. So why now, just before the holidays are we putting this ban into place? They agreed that the situation on Mission Street was not good, and they also want these other vendors who are allegedly selling stolen goods to be moved by police and other city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Because I guess this ban is applying to everyone, including the vendors who’ve legally obtained permits to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah, that was basically the message of Sofia Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sofia Lopez: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish] \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>She’s a longtime vendor who sells crafts from Central America. She’s been selling in the Mission District, she says, for eight years. And her message was basically, we’re not the ones selling stolen things, so why are you punishing us?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sofia Lopez: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>[speaking spanish] \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Sofia Lopez said vendors actually do feel safe in the mission because it’s their home. Other vendors also talked about feeling blindsided and upset that they weren’t directly involved in this decision that affects their neighborhood. Well, it’s interesting how much the word safety keeps coming up in this story. And I’m curious if advocates of these vendors really believe that this ban is going to do what Ronen and the city wants it to do, which is to keep people safe and make people safer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So the question of whether or not not having these vendors around will create more safety is something that’s debated by some of the advocates who are advocating for the vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hillary Ronen: \u003c/strong>Safety does not equal the lack of vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>One person who spoke at a press conference the Wednesday before Thanksgiving was Deldelp Medina. She’s the co-president of the San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club. And she basically said we need a safety plan in order to really ensure safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deldelp Medina: \u003c/strong>Having people be economically viable is what creates safety. 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This is our request: that we want to keep working this December.’[/pullquote]The \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/sites/default/files/Order208803.docx.pdf\">90-day rule\u003c/a>, which prohibits street vendors from selling goods within 300 feet of Mission Street between 14th and Cesar Chavez streets, marks the city’s latest attempt to crack down on illegal transactions, retail theft and violent crime near the neighborhood’s BART plazas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, at a rally on Monday afternoon, a group of street vendors and community advocates said the ban comes at the busiest time of the year and will be a major gut punch to the more than 100 permitted vendors in the neighborhood, most of whom are lower-income immigrants struggling to make a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re working hard, without selling things that one shouldn’t be selling,” José Barajas, a permitted vendor who has been selling flowers in the Mission for more than 20 years and is part of the Mission Street Vendors Association, said in Spanish at Monday’s event. “We’re selling things the right way. They want to remove us because of other problems that we do not have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relocating even a block or two away from his usual spot near the 24th Street BART plaza could really hurt his sales, Barajas added. As he spoke, eight motorcycle police officers stood guard on that stretch of sidewalk, devoid of the street vendors that normally set up shop there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968473\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two police officers cross a busy intersection in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-03-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco police officers walk across Mission Street at 24th Street during a press conference held by the recently formed Mission Street Vendors Association in San Francisco on Nov. 27, 2023, in opposition to the new temporary street-vending ban. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gladys Maigua, another Mission Street vendor who spoke at Monday’s rally, emphasized that December is the most important and profitable month for most vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hardworking, honest people. We’ve complied with all the laws, the requirements that the city has given us,” she said in Spanish. “This is our request: that we want to keep working this December.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three San Francisco Public Works department crews — each accompanied by two police officers — plan to monitor this stretch of Mission Street through Feb. 24 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Rachel Gordon, a spokesperson for the agency, said in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone found vending in the off-limits areas during those times will first be issued a verbal or written warning, with repeat offenders subject to potential fines ranging from $100 to $1,000, Gordon said. Inspectors also can impound the items being sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to disrupt the dangerous conditions around unpermitted vending and create a safer neighborhood for residents, small businesses, and our permitted street vendors,” Mayor London Breed said in a press announcement about the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the city also announced that space in two nearby marketplaces will be made available starting this week for permitted street vendors to sell their goods while the ban remains in effect. Tiangue Marketplace (on Mission Street between 17th and 18th streets) will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and La Placita (on 24th between Capp and Lilac streets) will be open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6 p.m., the city said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Mission-based nonprofits — Calle 24 Latino Cultural District, Clecha, and the Latino Task Force Resource Hub — will help oversee the temporary marketplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968476\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968476\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older Latina speaks in front of microphones at an outdoor event. Behind her is a small crowd of people, and pigeons flying above them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sofia Lopez, a permitted street vendor, speaks at Monday’s press event at the 24th Street BART plaza, on the first day of the temporary street-vending ban on Mission Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is paying about $150,000 per month to rent the two spaces, and marketplace stalls are free for permitted vendors, said Supervisor Ronen, a strong proponent of the ban, whose district includes most of the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen, who spoke at Monday’s rally, said multiple stalls at both marketplaces were still available and encouraged vendors to apply for them, adding that the city would consider opening a third site if more space is needed. She also urged people to do their holiday shopping at the new temporary sites, emphasizing that the program’s success will depend on community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, unlike most other speakers at the rally, she did not support postponing the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with vending on Mission Street is not these people behind me,” Ronen said, referring to the vendors at the rally. “The problem is that there is another element of stealing and selling stolen goods, and it has become dangerous here.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=news_11968298,news_11923790]Conditions have gotten so dangerous near the two Mission BART stations that Public Works employees now don bulletproof vests when checking for vending permits, Ronen said, noting that she receives daily calls and emails from her constituents imploring the city to crack down on illegal street activity in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite demands from vendors to stave off the ban until the new year, it’s highly unlikely the city will delay the plan now that it’s in effect. Ronen said that her office will meet with vendors and other city agencies to evaluate the impacts of the temporary ban and determine the next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office will also host a resource fair to help vendors with other entrepreneurship opportunities and provide additional immigration, health and housing support, Breed said in the press statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to support people who are trying to make a living and following our permits and guidelines, and these new spaces and support will do just that,” Breed said. “This is about helping the entire Mission community and making sure that merchants, residents, and City workers feel safe and that the neighborhood can thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB946&search_keywords=vendor\">decriminalized street vending in 2018\u003c/a>. But as complaints over sidewalk safety increased, San Francisco officials created a new system last year allowing vendors to apply for permits. \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/apply-street-vending-permit\">In the online application\u003c/a>, vendors must agree to only sell items that they have legitimately procured. In most cases, the city has waived the $430 application fee to encourage more participation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white woman speaks into multiple microphones at an outside event, with a crowd of people standing behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-17-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen speaks during a press conference at 24th Street BART plaza in San Francisco on Monday, held by the newly formed Mission Street Vendors Association, about the new street-vending ban she supports. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In July 2022, before that permit process launched, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923790/the-fences-didnt-help-24th-street-mission-bart-vendors-brace-for-new-permit-system-amid-crackdown-on-sale-of-stolen-goods\">BART erected fences around the 24th Street BART Plaza\u003c/a> — over which it has jurisdiction — to steer vendors onto the sidewalk where Public Works employees could then cite and force them to move. The approach was met with fierce criticism from vendors and community members who said it did little to resolve issues of crime and stolen goods while making it harder to simply pass through the otherwise bustling, vibrant cultural center. Less than two months later, after protesters repeatedly tore down the fences, BART abandoned the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several months ago, in late September, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/new-barricades-erected-at-16th-st-bart-plaza-to-deter-vendors/\">BART erected similar temporary barricades\u003c/a> around the 16th Street BART plaza to deter street vending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Brown, 27, who grew up in San Francisco, said he has a street-vending permit to sell refurbished household items, which helps supplement his income as a desk clerk at a nursing home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a lot of anger because they made us get these permits, go downtown and fill out paperwork, and then blame everybody for the crime that’s happening,” Brown told KQED at Monday’s press event. “It’s just like all that work for nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to disrupt the dangerous conditions around unpermitted vending and create a safer neighborhood for residents, small businesses, and our permitted street vendors,” Mayor London Breed said in a press announcement about the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the city also announced that space in two nearby marketplaces will be made available starting this week for permitted street vendors to sell their goods while the ban remains in effect. Tiangue Marketplace (on Mission Street between 17th and 18th streets) will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and La Placita (on 24th between Capp and Lilac streets) will be open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6 p.m., the city said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Mission-based nonprofits — Calle 24 Latino Cultural District, Clecha, and the Latino Task Force Resource Hub — will help oversee the temporary marketplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968476\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968476\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older Latina speaks in front of microphones at an outdoor event. Behind her is a small crowd of people, and pigeons flying above them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231127-VendorRally-15-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sofia Lopez, a permitted street vendor, speaks at Monday’s press event at the 24th Street BART plaza, on the first day of the temporary street-vending ban on Mission Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is paying about $150,000 per month to rent the two spaces, and marketplace stalls are free for permitted vendors, said Supervisor Ronen, a strong proponent of the ban, whose district includes most of the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen, who spoke at Monday’s rally, said multiple stalls at both marketplaces were still available and encouraged vendors to apply for them, adding that the city would consider opening a third site if more space is needed. She also urged people to do their holiday shopping at the new temporary sites, emphasizing that the program’s success will depend on community support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, unlike most other speakers at the rally, she did not support postponing the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with vending on Mission Street is not these people behind me,” Ronen said, referring to the vendors at the rally. “The problem is that there is another element of stealing and selling stolen goods, and it has become dangerous here.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A 90-day ban on street vending on a section of San Francisco’s Mission Street goes into effect today. The ban extends along a large stretch of the corridor, anywhere within 300 feet of Mission Street, from 14th Street to Cesar Chavez Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is moving ahead with the plan, spearheaded by Supervisor Hillary Ronen, despite calls by some vendors to delay the ban. Vendors still selling goods on the street will be asked to move or risk having their items confiscated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, dozens of members of the recently formed Mission Street Vendors Association, a group of more than a hundred street vendors who sell on Mission Street, took to the 24th Street BART Plaza to call on the city to hold off on the ban until the new year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Deldelp Medina, co-president, Latinx Democratic Club\"]‘Safety does not equal the lack of vendors. Having a safety plan is what gains safety. Having people be economically viable is what creates safety.’[/pullquote]Allies of the vendors said the ban couldn’t come at a worse time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is deeply immoral and unconscionable to take away what for many folks is their only livelihood before the holidays,” said Kevin Ortiz, co-president of the San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a community newsletter sent last month, Ronen said uncontrolled vending has created “measurable hazards,” and that she pulled together a group of city leaders to address the problem after learning that some people selling stolen goods on the street had threatened and assaulted Department of Public Works inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resulting \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/sites/default/files/Order208803.docx.pdf\">Public Works Order\u003c/a> banning all vending on the street is set to last for 90 days, although it may be extended if there are “objective health, safety, and welfare concerns.” \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/sites/default/files/Order208803.docx.pdf\">The order\u003c/a> directly links people who sell stolen goods with a rise in crime in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Illegal Vending and concerns that illegal Vending has caused the street conditions of the Mission Street Corridor to be worse than ever are common topics of discussion at community meetings, and the community members who attend these meetings routinely call for and support greater police action to make the Mission Street Corridor safer and more accessible for pedestrians;” the order states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deldelp Medina, the other co-president of the Latinx Democratic Club, challenged the idea that vendors cause crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Safety does not equal the lack of vendors. Having a safety plan is what gains safety. Having people be economically viable is what creates safety,” Medina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-25-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-25-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A woman speaks into news microphones with a group of people behind.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-25-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-25-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-25-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-25-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-25-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sofia Lopez, a permitted vendor, speaks alongside members of the recently formed Mission Vendor Association gather at the 24th Street BART plaza during a press conference in San Francisco on Nov. 22, 2023, condemning an upcoming rule banning vending on Mission Street. The ban would extend from Cesar Chavez Street to 14th Street on Mission Street, with some exceptions, and is set to begin on Nov. 27. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vendors also said the ban was an attempt to provide a blanket solution to a problem they have nothing to do with. With the passage of Senate Bill 946 in 2018, sidewalk vending was decriminalized in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Ronen] wants to take away the vendors in the Mission because she says vendors sell stolen items. We are not part of the problem,” said Sofia Lopez, who has sold Central American crafts in the Mission for the last eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez held a sheaf of papers aloft, showing the various permits she has acquired since 2015 to comply with city vending laws. In March 2022, the city expanded laws regulating vendors, requiring all vendors in the city to carry a permit. Permits for Mission Street recently expired and are not currently being renewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many people here today for the holidays,” Lopez said. “If we aren’t here, they are going to miss the products we sell. Our products aren’t sold in nearby stores. Our products [are] specially obtained from places like Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen has tried to address a perceived rise in crime due to vendors selling apparently stolen goods before. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923790/the-fences-didnt-help-24th-street-mission-bart-vendors-brace-for-new-permit-system-amid-crackdown-on-sale-of-stolen-goods\">In July of last year\u003c/a>, BART erected fences around the 24th Street BART Plaza at Ronen’s request in an attempt to push vendors onto the sidewalk, where they could be cited and forced to move by Public Works employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, Ronen said the fences were in part to protect longtime legal vendors who had reported being assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would come and rip their tablecloth off the table and have all of their wares flying away,” she told KQED last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-12-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968224\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-12-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A man holds a neon green protest sign with several people around him on a city street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-12-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-12-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-12-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-12-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-12-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the recently formed Mission Vendor Association gather at the 24th Street BART plaza for a press conference in San Francisco on Nov. 22, 2023, condemning an upcoming rule banning vending on Mission Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But members of the Mission Street Vendors Association are now expressing frustration that they have been left out of the decision-making process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want more transparency,” vendor Rodrigo Lopez said. “We want Supervisor Ronen to make us participants in the decisions she makes together with the City, DPW, and ourselves. The Mission has begun to change, but it has changed for many other reasons, not us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen said she is working to open spaces off public sidewalks where the vendors can continue to sell their wares. Vendors say a storefront on Mission Street between 17th and 18th streets and a part of a parking lot on 24th and Capp streets have been identified as places that could likely house the vendors while the ban is in place. However, they added that the spaces were unlikely to provide room for all 116 members, which the Mission Street Vendors Association claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It won’t work for my kind of products. The space is too small, so it isn’t feasible for me,” said Cesar Oyagata, who says he has sold indigenous crafts in the neighborhood for over 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-13-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968225\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A woman speaks into microphones with a group of people behind.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-13-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231122-MissionStVendors-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luz Ledesma speaks alongside members of the recently formed Mission Vendor Association at the 24th Street BART plaza during a press conference in San Francisco on Nov. 22, 2023, condemning an upcoming rule banning vending on Mission Street. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Luz Ledesma, who has sold jewelry on the street for more than 10 years with her husband, said she felt blindsided by the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are we going to do now? 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The ban would extend from Cesar Chavez Street to 14th Street on Mission Street, with some exceptions, and is set to begin on Nov. 27. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vendors also said the ban was an attempt to provide a blanket solution to a problem they have nothing to do with. With the passage of Senate Bill 946 in 2018, sidewalk vending was decriminalized in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Ronen] wants to take away the vendors in the Mission because she says vendors sell stolen items. We are not part of the problem,” said Sofia Lopez, who has sold Central American crafts in the Mission for the last eight years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez held a sheaf of papers aloft, showing the various permits she has acquired since 2015 to comply with city vending laws. In March 2022, the city expanded laws regulating vendors, requiring all vendors in the city to carry a permit. Permits for Mission Street recently expired and are not currently being renewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many people here today for the holidays,” Lopez said. “If we aren’t here, they are going to miss the products we sell. Our products aren’t sold in nearby stores. 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[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Angela Alioto, lead trial counsel for the case\"]It’s such a great victory that this jury saw right through the city’s pretexts and saw the insidious racism that is at different offices throughout the city, but specifically in this case at the sheriff’s office.’[/pullquote]“It’s such a great victory that this jury saw right through the city’s pretexts and saw the insidious racism that is at different offices throughout the city, but specifically in this case at the sheriff’s office,” said Angela Alioto, lead trial counsel for the case. “The hatred that is racism has no place in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillard and Lee, who are both Black, process warrants for crime suspects at the sheriff’s office. The two spoke out about their experience and the verdict in their favor at a press conference on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family was accused of being gang members,” Dillard told reporters at a Monday press conference. “It was overwhelming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their lawsuit, the women claimed they were repeatedly subject to explicitly racist language and other workplace discrimination and that they faced retaliation, including threats she could lose her job after complaining about officers who were perpetuating harmful behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included an incident where a supervisor named Sgt. Phyllis Washington referred to Dillard as a “monkey.” Attorneys representing the plaintiffs also said a noose was once presented in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillard, who was also a union shop steward, reported her and other union members’ experience with racial discrimination at work. 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It really hurt,” Lee said. “I had endured so much before, and I just continued to sweep it underneath the rug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said she was also asked to change her physical appearance, including her hairstyle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was excruciating for me because I had to shave my head,” Lee said at a press conference on Monday. “They didn’t want me to color my hair, which I had been coloring for over 20 years. It was very emotional for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury unanimously agreed to provide the plaintiffs $1,139,400, with $523,400 going to Dillard and $616,000 for Lee. 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After more than 100 years of service, a change in ownership and location, the reputation of having the “world’s rudest waiter” and maintaining a place in the ever-changing landscape of the country’s oldest Chinatown, Sam Wo endures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967533\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-16-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people walk on a crosswalk across a wet city street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-16-BL.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-16-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-16-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-16-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-16-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Lee (center), co-founder of Chinatown nightclub Lion’s Den, leads a walking tour of the neighborhood for attendees of the APEC conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With President Joe Biden and world leaders from the Pacific Rim, including President Xi Jinping of China, in San Francisco for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, it has put neighborhoods like Chinatown in the spotlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee wants the light to shine on legacy establishments like Sam Wo and the new restaurants reimagining Chinatown. That was the premise behind Wednesday night’s walking tour of the neighborhood’s beloved restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, the city’s former entertainment commissioner, created the tour with Beverly Yip, an events and hospitality entrepreneur. Together, they led a diverse group of about a dozen summit attendees, some of whom were journalists, to iconic spots while weaving in personal anecdotes, history and stories. At hole-in-the-wall to-go spots, Michelin-star restaurants, chic lounges and revamped eateries, attendees met with chefs, owners and employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-06-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A hand reaches for one of five dumplings on a dish.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-06-BL.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-06-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-06-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-06-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-06-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dishes are served to guests at China Live during a Chinatown walking tour for APEC attendees in San Francisco on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group started at China Live, which offers an elevated take on Chinese cuisine and is known for its Peking duck. Next was Osmanthus Dim Sum Lounge. The tour stopped at the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, where tens of thousands of fortune cookies are made by hand daily and images of visiting celebrities decorate the walls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11742748]Also on the itinerary: Empress by Boon, R & G Lounge, Capital, Mister Jiu’s and Hang Ah Tea Room, the oldest dim sum restaurant in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, 66, is also a Chinatown institution. He founded several clubs, including Lion’s Den, which is just a couple of blocks away from Sam Wo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Lee met with a KQED reporter at Sam Wo. After showing his signature on the bottom of the tables, he explained each weathered photograph on the walls. On the way to his club, locals shouted greetings. Some accompanied him for a few moments, while others just simply embraced him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yip said Chinatown runs in her blood. She lived on Sacramento Street growing up. Her father worked at a restaurant and her mom owned a business. When she was in high school, she competed for Miss Chinatown USA. She agreed to co-lead the tour, drawn to the fact attendees would “see Chinatown through our eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee spoke of the “battle of Chinatown” and the lingering perception of the area as unsafe and dirty. He wants that to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During AAPI hate — even before that really was heavy-hitting, before COVID — you would come to Chinatown and all the restaurants would be empty,” Lee said. “But if you go through the Stockton Tunnel and hit Union Square or even go to North Beach, there’s lines waiting to get in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967527\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-07-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people sit at a table in a restaurant turned toward two people speaking.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-07-BL.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-07-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-07-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-07-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-07-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dishes are served to guests at China Live during Wednesday’s Chinatown walking tour for APEC attendees in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The summit — and the tour, on a smaller scale — can work to reverse the perception, he hopes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest thing we hope for is to send that message that Chinatown and San Francisco, in general, that we are clean. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Also on the itinerary: Empress by Boon, R & G Lounge, Capital, Mister Jiu’s and Hang Ah Tea Room, the oldest dim sum restaurant in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, 66, is also a Chinatown institution. He founded several clubs, including Lion’s Den, which is just a couple of blocks away from Sam Wo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Lee met with a KQED reporter at Sam Wo. After showing his signature on the bottom of the tables, he explained each weathered photograph on the walls. On the way to his club, locals shouted greetings. Some accompanied him for a few moments, while others just simply embraced him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yip said Chinatown runs in her blood. She lived on Sacramento Street growing up. Her father worked at a restaurant and her mom owned a business. When she was in high school, she competed for Miss Chinatown USA. She agreed to co-lead the tour, drawn to the fact attendees would “see Chinatown through our eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee spoke of the “battle of Chinatown” and the lingering perception of the area as unsafe and dirty. He wants that to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During AAPI hate — even before that really was heavy-hitting, before COVID — you would come to Chinatown and all the restaurants would be empty,” Lee said. “But if you go through the Stockton Tunnel and hit Union Square or even go to North Beach, there’s lines waiting to get in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967527\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967527\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-07-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people sit at a table in a restaurant turned toward two people speaking.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-07-BL.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-07-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-07-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-07-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/231115-APECWalkingTour-07-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dishes are served to guests at China Live during Wednesday’s Chinatown walking tour for APEC attendees in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The summit — and the tour, on a smaller scale — can work to reverse the perception, he hopes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest thing we hope for is to send that message that Chinatown and San Francisco, in general, that we are clean. We are safe,” he said. “We’re not any different from any other city. It’s just that we get the publicity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before coming to the tour, Zahara Stroud, an APEC attendee who lives in the South Bay, rarely visited Chinatown. She thought it was a crowded cluster of streets filled with tourist shops. She said she thought it was “a very casual atmosphere — you walk in, you grab your food and leave.” She went home with a different mindset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tonight, we learned about the families who still run these restaurants as a dedication of love, and we also got to see some of the new owners who are trying to upgrade the experience of eating in Chinatown to a new level,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco is on track to hit a tragic milestone by the end of the year — with more fatal overdoses projected in 2023 than any on record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is absolutely bleak, but it is not unexpected,” said Alex Kral, an epidemiologist at the independent nonprofit research institute RTI International. “Absent any new huge impactful interventions, I would continue to expect us to get worse for a couple of years until it would stabilize. But stabilized still means bad.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alex Kral, epidemiologist, RTI International\"]‘It is absolutely bleak, but it is not unexpected.’[/pullquote]There were 692 accidental overdose deaths from January to October of this year, with 65 occurring in October, according to the latest \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-11/2023%2011_OCME%20Overdose%20Report.pdf\">medical examiner data\u003c/a> released Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new data supports projections made months ago that the city could eclipse its tragic milestone from 2020, when a total of 726 overdose deaths occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kral has studied drug use and overdoses in San Francisco for nearly 30 years. His estimation that overdose deaths may continue to rise is based on patterns in the East Coast, where fentanyl became more common in the illicit drug supply about 10 years ago, before hitting the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of a deadlier drug supply, Kral says widening economic inequality, coupled with the region’s severe lack of affordable housing and out-of-reach treatment options, have fueled overdose deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have seen on the East Coast that it really took about five years or so for things to continue to skyrocket before leveling off,” Kral said. “In San Francisco, fentanyl didn’t really show up in a large way until 2019, so we are still in year three or four of that huge increase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of overdose deaths occurring in San Francisco — and elsewhere across the West Coast — involve fentanyl, an opioid about 50 times stronger than heroin. Many overdose deaths in the report involved combinations of substances with fentanyl, including methamphetamine and cocaine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to rising overdoses, local public health officials have dramatically expanded the availability of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945418/san-francisco-has-doubled-participants-of-this-opioid-treatment-heres-why\">buprenorphine\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941618/sfs-mobile-clinics-made-opioid-treatment-more-accessible-during-the-pandemic-but-will-they-stay\">methadone\u003c/a>, medications that can curb opioid cravings and withdrawal and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959733/san-franciscans-want-you-to-know-recovery-is-possible\">help with recovery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11967667 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Boxes of Narcan are on a table.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230831-SAFE-USE-POP-UP-MD-05-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxes of Narcan, the overdose prevention drug, at a safe drug use pop-up site created by volunteers with Concerned Public Response in San Francisco on Aug. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947448/there-to-save-a-life-san-francisco-bars-fight-fentanyl-overdoses-with-narcan\">widespread distribution of Narcan\u003c/a>, a fast-acting medicine that can reverse an opioid overdose, has saved countless lives. The city also plans to add new residential treatment beds in 2024 to its current total of 2,550.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must remain nimble in our overdose prevention efforts, including getting more people who use drugs into treatment with medications for opioid use disorder in outpatient and residential treatment settings,” reads a press statement from the Department of Public Health, released after the data was published. 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There were 333 overdoses reversed at the facility, and no deaths took place. The site drew in hundreds of people a day for meals, showers and overdose prevention help but closed down after 11 months of operation. The city has not reopened a similar site since. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lydia Bransten, executive director, Gubbio Project\"]‘There are a lot of words to run [supervised consumption sites], but nothing to say we will be there for you if something happens legally. That has really put people in a position where they don’t feel safe to be able to do it.’[/pullquote]Supervised consumption sites are one aspect of local drug response, along with residential treatment, medication-assisted treatment, abstinence, law enforcement coordination and better access to housing and health care. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>KQED reached out to multiple city agencies to confirm whether unhoused individuals in the area will be forced to move, however, city officials did not respond to requests to clarify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is clear, based on HSH communications, is that the city is working to prioritize shelter placements for unhoused people near the conference venues located at the Moscone Center and around Nob Hill. But it must do so delicately, as the city is currently facing a lawsuit over how it responds to tents on sidewalks and treats homeless people during encampment clearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2022, the Coalition on Homelessness sued San Francisco for violating its own rules for removing homeless encampments. A federal judge later banned San Francisco from clearing homeless encampments unless they can offer people living in them alternative shelter. (Under the injunction, the city can still ask people to temporarily move for cleaning and accessibility purposes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city doesn’t have enough housing or temporary shelter to offer everyone living on its streets. More than 7,000 are estimated to be homeless in San Francisco, and more than half of those people don’t have access to any form of shelter, according to city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Meanwhile, there were \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/how-to-get-services/accessing-temporary-shelter/adult-temporary-shelter/shelter-reservation-waitlist/\">468 people on the city’s online waitlist for shelter\u003c/a> on Wednesday, less than a week from the event’s launch. The city has about 3,000 shelter beds in its system, which is currently at \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/shelter/\">91% capacity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the issues, in this case, is the lack of transparency from the city in terms of what its plans are and how it handles encampment resolution, which can lead to a lot of issues with enforcement of the ordinances they are supposed to be following,” said John Do, an attorney with the ACLU, which is representing plaintiffs in the homelessness lawsuit against San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People like Taj and Matt, an unhoused couple living in the South of Market neighborhood, appear to be caught in the city’s impossible juggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a week ago, the two slept on Merlin Street under the 80 freeway overpass in San Francisco when a cadre of city workers woke them up and told them to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Public Works employee told them they needed to clear the area for a big event coming up where President Joe Biden and other heads of state from nearly 20 countries would be coming to town, according to Matt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They didn’t have any other place to go. So now, Taj says, the couple stays “anywhere we don’t get harassed or our stuff stolen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, they were in SoMA and asked to shoo again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t offer anything,” said Taj on Wednesday from a SoMa bus stop. “It’s bad enough we are in this position. You know how bad we want to be inside?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Vanessa Rancaño contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Uber and Lyft elbowed their way into the cab business back in the mid-2000s, taxi drivers fought back and demanded debt relief from the cities that sold them cab permits, known as medallions, for hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new “ride-sharing” apps, which weren’t required to buy medallions, drove down business for taxi drivers — and those drivers wanted and needed restitution from the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ali Asghar, taxi driver\"]‘Since these apps came, and now that driverless apps are here, who’s going to help us?’[/pullquote]Today, taxi drivers — many of whom are immigrants and people of color — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798851/s-f-taxi-drivers-say-the-medallion-crisis-is-killing-them-literally\">are still awaiting relief\u003c/a> to pay off loans for their taxi medallions that the city sold to hundreds of drivers starting in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, another threat to San Francisco’s cab business looms: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957833/are-you-ready-for-more-driverless-taxis-cpuc-votes-on-whether-to-let-cruise-waymo-expand-in-sf\">robotaxis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six days a week, Ali Asghar wakes up and commutes from Richmond to the San Francisco International Airport. Each time, he’ll clock in through an app, placing him in a queue of taxi drivers waiting their turn to pick up a passenger from SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-02-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966654 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands in front of a vehicle with the hood open while holding a long, thin piece of metal to test the level of oil.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-02-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-02-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ali Asghar checks his oil outside his home in Richmond on Sept. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-Diptych-01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966658 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-Diptych-01.jpg\" alt=\"Left: A man holds a phone that displays the number '133' while sitting in the driver's seat of a vehicle. Right: A man waves at a taxi while walking through a parking lot.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-Diptych-01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-Diptych-01-800x265.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-Diptych-01-1020x338.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-Diptych-01-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-Diptych-01-1536x509.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Asghar checks his number in line, which is currently at 133, at the taxi staging lot outside San Francisco International Airport on Sept. 21, 2023. He often waits several hours at this lot for his turn in line to pick up a passenger at the airport. Right: Asghar waves to a friend in their vehicle while walking around the taxi staging lot. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday morning, he logged in at 7 a.m. and already there were 106 drivers ahead of him, meaning he’d likely have to wait two or three hours before he could pull around and pick up an airport passenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While waiting, Ali and the other SFO taxi drivers often hang out in a nearby parking lot, passing hours with card games, snacks and cigarettes. But they’d all prefer to be on the road earning money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re very lucky to make three trips in a day now,” Asghar said one morning from the taxi lot at SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-08-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966659 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-08-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A man talks to another person in a parking lot as the sun sets.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-08-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-08-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-08-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-08-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-08-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asghar talks to a fellow driver at the taxi staging lot. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2010, former San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom brought the medallion model to San Francisco, which had been used in places like New York City and Chicago. The idea would be to have the city sell the medallions to cab drivers, streamlining the city’s free but long waitlist-based process to get a cab permit while also boosting the city’s budget. San Francisco Credit Union stepped in as the lender to help drivers purchase the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11957833,news_11798851,news_11965752\" label=\"Related Stories\"]At the time, around 700 taxi drivers bought the medallions at $250,000 a piece, bringing in millions of dollars for the city. At first, the investment paid off for many drivers, who could make back the money and even lease out their medallion to other cab drivers to retire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be that you work hard, you help serve the city, and then you’re rewarded. And back then, we were making money because there were no other apps around us,” said Asghar, originally from Pakistan. “The city said if it did not work out, [they’d] we’ll buy back the medallion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230922-TaxiDriver-05-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966660 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230922-TaxiDriver-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A yellow taxi sits in the foreground with red, yellow, and blue taxis sit in lanes in the background in an underground space.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230922-TaxiDriver-05-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230922-TaxiDriver-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230922-TaxiDriver-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230922-TaxiDriver-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230922-TaxiDriver-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi drivers fill a second taxi lot at San Francisco International Airport on Sept. 22, 2023. After waiting at the lot outside of the airport, drivers enter a second waiting area before being dispatched to the terminals to pick up passengers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before ride-hailing apps Uber and Lyft began offering cheaper ride options without being required by the city to purchase a medallion to operate, Asghar said he could get dozens of cab rides in a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2018, the San Francisco Federal Credit Union \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659420/credit-union-is-suing-san-francisco-over-taxi-medallion-meltdown\">sued the city\u003c/a>, alleging that it broke its contract by failing to maintain a viable market for medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, many Bay Area taxi drivers have defaulted on their medallion mortgages, and those who have not, struggle to stay afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/012_SanFrancisco_TaxiDriverProtest_12072021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966661 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/012_SanFrancisco_TaxiDriverProtest_12072021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A view from a taxi window of six protesters holding signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/012_SanFrancisco_TaxiDriverProtest_12072021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/012_SanFrancisco_TaxiDriverProtest_12072021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/012_SanFrancisco_TaxiDriverProtest_12072021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/012_SanFrancisco_TaxiDriverProtest_12072021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/012_SanFrancisco_TaxiDriverProtest_12072021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi driver Ali Asghar (left) and his son, Ihsan, protest with other drivers outside City Hall in San Francisco on Dec. 7, 2021, to demand loan forgiveness on taxi medallions. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Slowly, we lost our business. I didn’t know what to do. I have five kids, me and my wife,” Asghar said. “Since these apps came, and now that driverless apps are here, who’s going to help us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city transit agency and the SF Credit Union are still in negotiations over loan forgiveness programs to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SFMTA is still considering all of its options in the course of the ongoing mediation with SFFCU and is not considering an approach outside of the mediation context at this time,” said Stephen Chun, a spokesperson for SFMTA, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked why San Francisco hasn’t been able to follow other cities in lowering medallion debt, Chun wrote that there are “differences in the medallion market and lending environment between SF and NY that make it difficult to develop a similar program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asghar can’t simply switch over to Lyft or Uber or another competitor. He’s saddled with a $1,777 monthly loan payment to pay off the medallion, along with a $900 monthly fee to pay for the FlyWheel logo on his cab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He estimates paying off the medallion will now take about 12 years if the rates of ridership don’t drop even further, as opposed to not having any mortgage for the permit before, and that’s only if he sticks with his 14-hours/day, six-days/week work schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230925-TaxiDriver-026-BL-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966662 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230925-TaxiDriver-026-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands on a red prayer mat, hands held to his head, sandals on the pavement nearby. A red vehicle is parked to the left inside a fenced area in front of an airline building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230925-TaxiDriver-026-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230925-TaxiDriver-026-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230925-TaxiDriver-026-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230925-TaxiDriver-026-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230925-TaxiDriver-026-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asghar takes a moment to pray at the taxi staging lot on Sept. 25, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As drivers continue to work to pay off their debt, the value of these once-coveted medallions has plummeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 848 medallions renewed for the 2023-24 fiscal year, compared with 1,329 in 2019-20, according to data from San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no new medallion has been purchased in San Francisco since 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2019, the number of actual taxi drivers in San Francisco has dropped about 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any dreams Asghar had of passing down the medallion to his son have been ditched. Asghar, who has driven taxis in the Bay Area for 20 years, said he no longer sees a future for any of his five children in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1723px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-13-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966663 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A teenager holds a young girl in the background while a man talks, out of focus, to someone outside of the frame.\" width=\"1723\" height=\"1148\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-13-BL.jpg 1723w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-13-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1723px) 100vw, 1723px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ali Asghar talks with a friend while his son Ihsan, 18, holds his youngest daughter Alishba, 7, outside their home in Richmond on Sept. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-Diptych-02.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966664 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-Diptych-02.jpg\" alt=\"Left: A man holds a young girl wearing a hijab on a suburban street. Right: A man washes the front of a vehicle while a young girl sprays water from a hose to remove the soap suds.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-Diptych-02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-Diptych-02-800x265.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-Diptych-02-1020x338.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-Diptych-02-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-Diptych-02-1536x509.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Asghar holds his youngest daughter, Alishba, outside his home. Right: Asghar washes his daughter’s car, a former taxi of his, with his youngest daughter, Alishba. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ihsan, Asghar’s 18-year-old son, works as an Amazon delivery driver at night when he’s not taking college classes. He’s working towards becoming a neurosonographer. But he also shares dreams with his father to spend more time together as a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody should have to work that much just to provide for your family. My dad used to take me on rides when I was younger, but I see how it is now. The medallion is over your head, so you can’t enjoy all these things,” said Ihsan. “If they just got some relief, we could spend more time together and make plans as a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-09-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966665 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-09-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits in the backseat of a vehicle with a beam of sunset light highlighting a portion of his face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-09-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-09-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-09-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-09-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-09-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asghar rests in his taxi as the sun goes down at the taxi staging lot. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, San Francisco is the world’s testing ground for driverless taxis, which have already seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965752/cruise-suspends-driverless-robotaxi-service-nationwide\">their share of ups and downs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asghar was actually working, he said, when he witnessed a high-profile driverless vehicle accident recently in San Francisco, where a pedestrian was hit by a regular car and thrown in front of a Cruise robotaxi, which then dragged the victim several feet forward in the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the type of scenario that members of the San Francisco Taxi Workers Alliance were calling attention to during a protest this summer outside the headquarters of the California Public Utilities Commission. In June, CPUC voted to allow Cruise and Waymo to add as many driverless taxis in the city as they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-10-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966666 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A white driverless vehicle drives on a city street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-10-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Waymo vehicle drives through Downtown San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the accident, the California DMV and CPUC have called on Cruise to suspend its robotaxi service, and the company has temporarily pulled all of its vehicles off the road nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other autonomous vehicle companies, like Waymo and Zoox, have kept their fleets running in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has not yet agreed to permit robotaxi company Waymo to operate out of San Francisco International Airport, where Ali typically works. But conversations about airport access are underway between the company and city officials, and Waymo has already started doing pickups and dropoffs from the airport in Phoenix, Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need our city to figure this out,” Asghar said. “We need some relief and a fair income to feed our families. Everyone knows what’s going on, we are crying and begging.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Today, taxi drivers — many of whom are immigrants and people of color — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798851/s-f-taxi-drivers-say-the-medallion-crisis-is-killing-them-literally\">are still awaiting relief\u003c/a> to pay off loans for their taxi medallions that the city sold to hundreds of drivers starting in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, another threat to San Francisco’s cab business looms: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957833/are-you-ready-for-more-driverless-taxis-cpuc-votes-on-whether-to-let-cruise-waymo-expand-in-sf\">robotaxis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six days a week, Ali Asghar wakes up and commutes from Richmond to the San Francisco International Airport. Each time, he’ll clock in through an app, placing him in a queue of taxi drivers waiting their turn to pick up a passenger from SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-02-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966654 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands in front of a vehicle with the hood open while holding a long, thin piece of metal to test the level of oil.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-02-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-02-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230930-TaxiDriver-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ali Asghar checks his oil outside his home in Richmond on Sept. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-Diptych-01.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966658 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-Diptych-01.jpg\" alt=\"Left: A man holds a phone that displays the number '133' while sitting in the driver's seat of a vehicle. Right: A man waves at a taxi while walking through a parking lot.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-Diptych-01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-Diptych-01-800x265.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-Diptych-01-1020x338.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-Diptych-01-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-Diptych-01-1536x509.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Asghar checks his number in line, which is currently at 133, at the taxi staging lot outside San Francisco International Airport on Sept. 21, 2023. He often waits several hours at this lot for his turn in line to pick up a passenger at the airport. Right: Asghar waves to a friend in their vehicle while walking around the taxi staging lot. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday morning, he logged in at 7 a.m. and already there were 106 drivers ahead of him, meaning he’d likely have to wait two or three hours before he could pull around and pick up an airport passenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At the time, around 700 taxi drivers bought the medallions at $250,000 a piece, bringing in millions of dollars for the city. At first, the investment paid off for many drivers, who could make back the money and even lease out their medallion to other cab drivers to retire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be that you work hard, you help serve the city, and then you’re rewarded. And back then, we were making money because there were no other apps around us,” said Asghar, originally from Pakistan. “The city said if it did not work out, [they’d] we’ll buy back the medallion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230922-TaxiDriver-05-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966660 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230922-TaxiDriver-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A yellow taxi sits in the foreground with red, yellow, and blue taxis sit in lanes in the background in an underground space.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230922-TaxiDriver-05-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230922-TaxiDriver-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230922-TaxiDriver-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230922-TaxiDriver-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230922-TaxiDriver-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi drivers fill a second taxi lot at San Francisco International Airport on Sept. 22, 2023. After waiting at the lot outside of the airport, drivers enter a second waiting area before being dispatched to the terminals to pick up passengers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before ride-hailing apps Uber and Lyft began offering cheaper ride options without being required by the city to purchase a medallion to operate, Asghar said he could get dozens of cab rides in a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2018, the San Francisco Federal Credit Union \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659420/credit-union-is-suing-san-francisco-over-taxi-medallion-meltdown\">sued the city\u003c/a>, alleging that it broke its contract by failing to maintain a viable market for medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, many Bay Area taxi drivers have defaulted on their medallion mortgages, and those who have not, struggle to stay afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/012_SanFrancisco_TaxiDriverProtest_12072021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966661 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/012_SanFrancisco_TaxiDriverProtest_12072021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A view from a taxi window of six protesters holding signs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/012_SanFrancisco_TaxiDriverProtest_12072021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/012_SanFrancisco_TaxiDriverProtest_12072021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/012_SanFrancisco_TaxiDriverProtest_12072021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/012_SanFrancisco_TaxiDriverProtest_12072021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/012_SanFrancisco_TaxiDriverProtest_12072021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi driver Ali Asghar (left) and his son, Ihsan, protest with other drivers outside City Hall in San Francisco on Dec. 7, 2021, to demand loan forgiveness on taxi medallions. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Slowly, we lost our business. I didn’t know what to do. I have five kids, me and my wife,” Asghar said. “Since these apps came, and now that driverless apps are here, who’s going to help us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city transit agency and the SF Credit Union are still in negotiations over loan forgiveness programs to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SFMTA is still considering all of its options in the course of the ongoing mediation with SFFCU and is not considering an approach outside of the mediation context at this time,” said Stephen Chun, a spokesperson for SFMTA, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked why San Francisco hasn’t been able to follow other cities in lowering medallion debt, Chun wrote that there are “differences in the medallion market and lending environment between SF and NY that make it difficult to develop a similar program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asghar can’t simply switch over to Lyft or Uber or another competitor. He’s saddled with a $1,777 monthly loan payment to pay off the medallion, along with a $900 monthly fee to pay for the FlyWheel logo on his cab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He estimates paying off the medallion will now take about 12 years if the rates of ridership don’t drop even further, as opposed to not having any mortgage for the permit before, and that’s only if he sticks with his 14-hours/day, six-days/week work schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230925-TaxiDriver-026-BL-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966662 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230925-TaxiDriver-026-BL-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands on a red prayer mat, hands held to his head, sandals on the pavement nearby. A red vehicle is parked to the left inside a fenced area in front of an airline building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230925-TaxiDriver-026-BL-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230925-TaxiDriver-026-BL-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230925-TaxiDriver-026-BL-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230925-TaxiDriver-026-BL-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230925-TaxiDriver-026-BL-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asghar takes a moment to pray at the taxi staging lot on Sept. 25, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As drivers continue to work to pay off their debt, the value of these once-coveted medallions has plummeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 848 medallions renewed for the 2023-24 fiscal year, compared with 1,329 in 2019-20, according to data from San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no new medallion has been purchased in San Francisco since 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2019, the number of actual taxi drivers in San Francisco has dropped about 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any dreams Asghar had of passing down the medallion to his son have been ditched. 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Right: Asghar washes his daughter’s car, a former taxi of his, with his youngest daughter, Alishba. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ihsan, Asghar’s 18-year-old son, works as an Amazon delivery driver at night when he’s not taking college classes. He’s working towards becoming a neurosonographer. But he also shares dreams with his father to spend more time together as a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody should have to work that much just to provide for your family. My dad used to take me on rides when I was younger, but I see how it is now. 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In June, CPUC voted to allow Cruise and Waymo to add as many driverless taxis in the city as they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-10-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11966666 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A white driverless vehicle drives on a city street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-10-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Waymo vehicle drives through Downtown San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the accident, the California DMV and CPUC have called on Cruise to suspend its robotaxi service, and the company has temporarily pulled all of its vehicles off the road nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other autonomous vehicle companies, like Waymo and Zoox, have kept their fleets running in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has not yet agreed to permit robotaxi company Waymo to operate out of San Francisco International Airport, where Ali typically works. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco is not in a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-doom-loop-imprecise-thinkpieces-18106896.php\">doom loop\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what the city’s top economist said at a Government Audit and Oversight Committee meeting on Thursday. But businesses and neighborhoods are adjusting unevenly to the current state of the economy, presenting new challenges for the city’s tax revenue and public services that rely on it. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ted Egan, San Francisco’s chief economist\"]‘I don’t think the doom loop exists now. It just isn’t growing very fast.’[/pullquote]San Francisco has earned a reputation for a slower economic recovery following the pandemic than many other metropolitan areas in the U.S. However, city officials presented a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953787/saving-downtown-san-francisco\">more optimistic outlook\u003c/a> at the committee meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the doom loop exists now,” Ted Egan, the city’s chief economist, said at the hearing, referring to a popularized idea around the city’s compounding economic and social problems. “It just isn’t growing very fast. That’s certainly a problem, but it’s not the problem that the doom loop people are pointing to. I certainly don’t think we are in one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns about the state of San Francisco’s downtown have been high since the start of the pandemic when businesses shut down longer than in many other cities to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Sales taxes — which fund social services, affordable housing and many other critical city programs — plummeted in 2020 as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Excluding downtown, total sales tax remitted from neighborhood businesses have \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24112924-con-presentation-110223\">largely bounced back to their pre-pandemic levels\u003c/a>, data from the city’s controller’s office shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s especially true for restaurants, which have surpassed their 2018 sales tax levels in areas beyond downtown, according to city data. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Supervisor Catherine Stefani\"]‘The city is rebounding in ways that we weren’t months ago.’[/pullquote]But even in the city’s financial core — hardest hit by pandemic-related economic woes — restaurants have bounced back to nearly 90% of those levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is rebounding in ways that we weren’t months ago,” Supervisor Catherine Stefani said at the hearing, which Supervisor Joel Engardio requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retail businesses, however, are seeing a different, more downward trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the city, sales tax from retail businesses remain below their pre-pandemic levels. The city is recouping less than 80% of its pre-pandemic sales tax revenue, and that’s closer to 90% for the rest of the city. [aside postID=news_11960940 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/004_KQED_BerkeleyYMCAEricaDavis_11162022-KQED-1020x680.jpg']That’s largely due to changes in overall shopping behavior, including the prevalence of online purchases for non-immediate needs, which began before the pandemic and is the cause of many major retail closures across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another significant challenge downtown faces is that commercial real estate and office buildings dominate the market, but many companies have adopted more relaxed daily in-person work requirements, so overall foot traffic in the area has declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more the district is relying straight on offices, the slower the recovery has been,” Egan said. “This is very tied to remote work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem isn’t only that businesses have closed but also that new ones are not opening as fast as they have in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966292\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966292\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-44-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bustling night market with food and live performances sees crowds of patrons.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-44-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-44-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-44-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-44-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-44-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of people wait in line at Wooly Pig at the Sunset Night market in San Francisco on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. The market’s inaugural night drew thousands of attendees, who enjoyed shops, food, games and live performances. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were 4,000 businesses downtown before the pandemic, for example. Now, there are about 3,200, according to Egan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have had fairly weak levels of business formation,” Egan said. “That accounts for the majority of issues downtown.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Supervisor Joel Engardio\"]‘With this shift to remote work, our downtown was overdue for a seismic imbalance. We need to continue to bring foot traffic and life to our streets.’[/pullquote]The city has been actively trying to bring people back downtown for other non-work-related reasons to make up for the gap, like lively night markets in the South of Market neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this shift to remote work, our downtown was overdue for a seismic imbalance. 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"content": "\u003cp>Like many California flower farmers, Lupe Rico has been in a frenzy over the last few days — cutting most of the 30,000 marigolds he grew on his Colma farm in time to sell for Día de los Muertos celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year, we grow a lot because we always come up short,” says Rico, a second-generation farmer. “We put some more this year, and we’re going to see what happens.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lupe Rico, second-generation farmer in Colma\"]‘You’re going to see orange everywhere.’[/pullquote]It’s impossible to imagine \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dia-de-los-muertos\">Día de los Muertos\u003c/a>, which begins Wednesday, without marigolds. These many-petaled flowers adorn the altars made for the holiday. The flowers’ bright orange color and sweet, earthy smell are believed to help lure the souls of the dead from their graves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rico sells his flowers at the San Francisco Flower Market, a wholesale market housed in a row of cavernous warehouses in the city’s SOMA neighborhood. The market has over 4,000 registered buyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days before the holiday, Rico says, the warehouse will fill up with marigolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re going to see orange everywhere,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many regional flower wholesalers say marigold sales have gone up in the past few years. One likely reason is the 2017 Disney film \u003cem>Coco\u003c/em> about Día de los Muertos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is kind of funny, but I will say after \u003cem>Coco\u003c/em>, [there’s been an] increase of people interested in the traditional Mexican Day of the Dead. It’s been so popular,” says Raul Dueñas, the account manager for Rafa’s Wholesale Flowers, which also sells at the SF Flower Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dueñas, also a floral designer, says a spate of restaurants, schools and hotels have been asking him to install marigold displays this year, and his business expects to sell 2,000 more bunches than they did last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Bunches of marigolds in plastic wrapping.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marigolds sit on display at Rafa’s Wholesale at the San Francisco Flower Market in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lisa Filice, the owner of Regional Farms, a flower wholesaler based in Gilroy, says she’s noticed a notable uptick in marigold sales, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Walmart has Día de los Muertos decorations, it must be big, right?” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the Bay Area’s rapidly growing Indian population, marigolds are also often used in wedding garlands and for the holiday Diwali, which falls on Nov. 12 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s driven by supply or driven by demand, it’s clear that we’re selling more and more marigolds,” says Alexander Peter Bottemanne, a flower industry consultant. 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It’s not a very expensive flower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bunch of marigolds sells for about $10 to $15, as compared to a bunch of roses, which sells for more than twice that amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Vivas contends it’s still worth having the festive orange flowers on hand. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mauricio Vivas, owner, Tony Rossi and Sons Flower Shop in Oakland\"]‘It’s like if I would have been there when my actual ancestors were doing the same rituals that we are doing now. I feel like I was there too.’[/pullquote]“It brings people, and then they buy something else that we have at the store,” he says, pointing to papel picado, candles and other items typically used to decorate community altars and private ones in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivas, who is from Michoacán, Mexico, also has a personal connection to marigolds. When he picks up a bunch of them, he says, the hairs on the back of his arm stand up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like if I would have been there when my actual ancestors were doing the same rituals that we are doing now,” he says. “I feel like I was there too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivas added that he just loves marigolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965705\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person reaches for something beween bouquets of marigolds in a large indoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-DayoftheDeadMarigolds-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lupe Rico helps customers with marigolds at Lupe Farms at the San Francisco Flower Market in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you see this flower from far away, it will just brighten up your eyes. 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